Anti-Lockdown Protest: Omo-Agege Condemns Shooting By Security Agents

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has condemned in very strong terms, the alleged shooting of one of the protesters in Sapele, Delta State against the state government’s two-week extension of the lockdown by security agents.
Omo- Agege has also called for the arrest and prosecution of the culprits to serve as a deterrent to other trigger-happy security men.
Omo- Agege has however appealed for calm over the protests in Sapele, Delta State against the state government’s two-week extension of the lockdown.
The Deputy President of the Senate who noted that the lockdown has caused untold hardship on the people, said however that the long-term benefits of the stay-at-home order are to protect the citizens from contracting the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19).
In a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yomi Odunuga, the Senator explained that authorities at all levels of government are making frantic efforts to get palliatives to the poorest of the poor.
Senator Omo-Agege recalled that around 1919 when the population of the area now known as Nigeria was only a fraction of what it is today, not less than half a million people died of a virulent global influenza pandemic brought by overseas ship passengers into coastal areas from where it spread elsewhere.
He said, “No doubt, the lockdown has caused difficulties and inconveniences for many citizens but in these trying times, it takes courage for our elected leaders to adopt global best practices by extending the lockdown so as to curb the spread of the deadly Coronavirus disease and save lives.